Off-topic.

In article <37164EF3.F1598...@simplex.nl>,
  Arthur Lemmens <lemm...@simplex.nl> wrote:

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I am too lazy to look it up, but I believe the ISO 10646 name of
this character is CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA or something.

Historical Note:
The original version of the Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the
9th century on the basis of the Greek alphabet.  Its name is a
tribute to St. Cyril, the Eastern Roman scholar and missionary who
captured the phonetics of the (then common) Slavonic language
into a writing system (using a different alphabet, now extinct)
and who was a translator of the Bible, and its development is
credited to St. Climent of Okhrid, one of St. Cyril's disciples.

By the way, I am not aware of another alphabet besides the
contemporary Russian version of Cyrillics where the number
of letters is a power of 2 (2^5).

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I'd rather have had the above as

  (char-code (char-upcase (code-char #xF0)))

instead of, or in addition to, the above, which makes little
apparent sense on my Macintosh with a Cyrillic font selected.

--
Vassil Nikolov <vnikoÄ